Too Many Pills by Le Fanu
How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It
A critique of modern medicine’s drift toward overdiagnosis and overprescribing, arguing that the focus on managing risk rather than treating illness has left many people taking multiple drugs with limited benefit and significant harms. Using clinical evidence and case histories, it shows how guideline-driven care, defensive practice, and pharmaceutical influence foster polypharmacy, side effects, and the medicalization of everyday life. It challenges routine screening and preventive interventions that can lead to overtreatment, and offers practical remedies—such as deprescribing, better informed consent, and renewed clinical judgment—to create safer, more patient-centered care.
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- 2018
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- Irish
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- English
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